CANAM 1969 - Pics of all cars

In 2010 the Franco Gianotti Trophy will be organised for the seventh consecutive year. This year the Trophy goes over 2 rounds contested with 1/24th CANAM "big bangers" of 1969, assembled following art. 8 of the IMCA Rule Book.
Point's system for the driver's ranking is quite easy. At each round the 10 best finishing PROs win res. 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point(s). The 10 best finishing SEMI-PROs (including amateurs) win the same points at each round. After two rounds all points won by the PROs, and all points won by the SEMI-PROs are added, giving the PRO winner and the SEMI-PRO winner. Both will receive € 250 cash! The 2 CANAM races are contested on Monday April 5 on the IMCA MTT track, installed at SRC Merlijn at Wezembeek-Oppem (2.5 miles from Brussels airport). The races are an appendix to the 22nd IMCA Nats of 2010, organised from Friday thru Sunday. The first round may be considered as a warm-up for the 18th European Championship Sprint, being contested at the second and last round. Prior to round #1 there will be a Qualification session over one minute on purple. Rank order of the qualifications will determine the composition of the heats for round #1. Both rounds go over 8 x 3 minutes. The final result of round #1 decides upon the composition of the heats at round #2. Despite 1/1 CANAM cars were raced with tyres of several dimensions, there will be handout of 25.5 mm x 13 mm rear tyres. Motor will always be a handout ProSlot PS4000-IMCA to be drawn blindly from a closed bag. Main goal of the 7th Franco Gianotti Trophy is to find the most beautiful cars of the world at the start. With Michael Niemas, Fola Osu, Gabriel Inäbnit, Hugo Dekker, George Kimber, Ralph Klose, Mario Kreim and Mark Huys at least eight of the best modellers are present with at least one car. Concourse winner can go home with € 2000. A specialists jury will base its judgement on a list of objective criterions - the list being kept a secret for all entrants.

After the F. Gianotti races we'll contest the 1st Retro World Championship, fully under IRRA-Canam rules, except for the motor which will be a well broken in PS4000-IMCA ProSlot one. American racers are asked to bring a second competitive retro car, so that European racers can compete too. Four European racers will start with a retro CANAM car as made by Bryan Warmack. We'll start with an 8 x 3' warm-up race. The Retro Worlds will start with the qualifications, followed by 8 x 3' consis. The 16 best after the consis move to the 8 x 4' Semis, the 4 best at each semi go to the 8 x 5' main. One of the IRRA guys will receive a free plane ticket to do scrutinizing and the race direction. Other racers are welcome, but our budget is restricted to cover the plane tickets of the 10 American racers. Tracy Chin has been added to the American racers receiving a free plane ticket. Other Americans, not among the 10, have to pay their plane tickets themselves. American racers are asked to mail us their COMPLETE bank account dates, so that we can do the wiring of the travelling incentive by March 20, 2010. With such a strong entry field nobody will dare any longer to speak about an "obscure world championship", as was done earlier by on old French racer, one of the usual extreme-right morons, absolutely not interested in a serious promotion of retro racing, only in the promotion of his own too big ego.

WEZEMBEEK-OPPEM ADDRESS: VZW Jeugdhuis Merlijn, Kerkhofstraat 54,, B-1970 Wezembeek-Oppem. Phone: +32 454 500.131, +32 2 273.10.435, + 32 477 641.426
HOTEL: Hotel Campanile Excelsiorlaan 2, B-1930 Zaventem. €85 per double room/night.
Formule 1 Brussels Airport, Basseveldstr 17A, B-1831 Diegem. €45 double room/night.
Hotel Mercure Brussels Airport, Jules Bordetlaan 74, B-1140 BXL. €90 double room/night.
Hotel Ibis Brussels Airport, Bessenveldstr 17, B-1831 Diegem. € 60 double room/night. [JPVR]